BACB Exam- Ethics
1.0 Responsible Conduct of a Behavior Analyst. answer - The behavior analyst maintains the high standards of
professional behavior of the professional organization.
1.01 Reliance on Scientific Knowledge. RBT answer - Behavior analysts rely on scientifically and professionally
derived knowledge when making scientific or professional judgments in human service provision, or when
engaging in scholarly or professional endeavors.
1.02A Competence. RBT answer - (a) Behavior analysts provide services, teach, and conduct research only
within the boundaries of their competence, based on their education, training, supervised experience, or
appropriate professional experience.
1.02B Competence. RBT answer - (b) Behavior analysts provide services, teach, or conduct research in new
areas or involving new techniques only after first undertaking appropriate study, training, supervision, and/or
consultation from persons who are competent in those areas or techniques.
1.03 Professional Development. RBT answer - Behavior analysts who engage in assessment, therapy, teaching,
research, organizational consulting, or other professional activities maintain a reasonable level of awareness of
current scientific and professional information in their fields of activity, and undertake ongoing efforts to
maintain competence in the skills they use by reading the appropriate literature, attending conferences and
conventions, participating in workshops, and/or obtaining Behavior Analyst Certification Board certification.
1.04A Integrity. RBT answer - (a) Behavior analysts are truthful and honest. They arrange the environment to
promote truthfulness & honesty in others
1.04D Integrity. RBT answer - (d) The behavior analyst's behavior conforms to the legal and moral codes of the
social and professional
,1.04C Integrity. RBT answer - (c) The behavior analysts follow through on obligations ans contractual and
professional commitments with high quality of work and refrain from making professional commitments they
cannot keep
1.04B Integrity. RBT answer - (b) Behavior analysts do not implement contingencies that would cause others to
engage in fraudulent , unethical or illegal conduct
1.05A Professional and Scientific Relationships. RBT answer - (a) Behavior analysts provide behavioral
diagnostic, therapeutic, teaching, research, supervisory, consultative, or other behavior analytic services only in
the context of a defined, remunerated professional or scientific relationship or role.
1.05B Professional and Scientific Relationships. RBT answer - (b) When behavior analysts provide assessment,
evaluation, treatment, counseling, supervision, teaching, consultation, research, or other behavior analytic
services to an individual, a group, or an organization, they use language that is fully understandable to the
recipient of those services. They provide appropriate information prior to service delivery about the nature of
such services and appropriate information later about results and conclusions.
1.05C Professional and Scientific Relationships. RBT answer - (c) Where differences of age, gender, race,
ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, language, or socioeconomic status significantly
affect behavior analysts' work concerning particular individuals or groups, behavior analysts obtain the training,
experience, consultation, or supervision necessary to ensure the competence of their services, or they make
appropriate referrals.
1.05D Professional and Scientific Relationships. RBT answer - (d) In their work-related activities, behavior
analysts do not engage in discrimination against individuals or groups based on age, gender, race, ethnicity,
national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, socioeconomic status, or any basis proscribed by law.
1.05E Professional and Scientific Relationships. RBT answer - (e) Behavior analysts do not knowingly engage in
behavior that is harassing or demeaning to persons with whom they interact in their work based on factors
such as those persons' age, gender, race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability,
language, or socioeconomic status, in accordance with law.
1.05F Professional and Scientific Relationships. RBT answer - (f) Behavior analysts recognize that their personal
problems and conflicts may interfere with their effectiveness. Behavior analysts refrain from providing services
, when their personal circumstances may compromise delivering services to the best of their abilities.
1.06A Multiple Relationships and Conflicts of Interest. RBT answer - (a) Due to potential harmful effects of
multiple relationships, Behavior Analysts avoid multiple relationships
1.06B Multiple Relationships and Conflicts of Interest. RBT answer - (b) A behavior analyst must always be
sensitive to the potentially harmful effects of multiple relationships. If behavior analysts find that, due to
unforeseen factors, a multiple relationship has arisen, they seek to resolve it .
1.06C Multiple Relationships and Conflicts of Interest. RBT answer - (c) Behavior analyst recognize and inform
clients and supervisees about the potential harmful effects of multiple relationships.
1.07A Exploitative Relationships. RBT answer - (a) Behavior analysts do not exploit persons over whom they
have supervisory, evaluative, or other authority such as students, supervisees, employees, research
participants, and clients.
1.07B Exploitative Relationships. RBT answer - (b) Behavior analysts do not engage in sexual relationships with
clients, students, or supervisees in training over whom the behavior analyst has evaluative or direct authority,
because such relationships easily impair judgment or become exploitative.
1.07D Exploitative Relationships. RBT answer - (d) Behavior analysts do not barter for services, unless a written
agreement is in place for that barter that is (1) requested by client or supervisee; (2) customary to the area
where services are provided (3) fair & commensurate with the value od behavior-analytic services provided
2.0 The Behavior Analyst's Responsibility to Clients. answer - The behavior analyst has a responsibility to
operate in the best interest of clients.
1.07C Exploitative Relationships answer - (c) Behavior analysts refrain from any sexual relationships with
clients, students, or supervisees, for at least 2 years after the date the professional relationship has formally
ended.
2.01 Accepting Clients. answer - The behavior analyst accepts as clients only those individuals or entities
1.0 Responsible Conduct of a Behavior Analyst. answer - The behavior analyst maintains the high standards of
professional behavior of the professional organization.
1.01 Reliance on Scientific Knowledge. RBT answer - Behavior analysts rely on scientifically and professionally
derived knowledge when making scientific or professional judgments in human service provision, or when
engaging in scholarly or professional endeavors.
1.02A Competence. RBT answer - (a) Behavior analysts provide services, teach, and conduct research only
within the boundaries of their competence, based on their education, training, supervised experience, or
appropriate professional experience.
1.02B Competence. RBT answer - (b) Behavior analysts provide services, teach, or conduct research in new
areas or involving new techniques only after first undertaking appropriate study, training, supervision, and/or
consultation from persons who are competent in those areas or techniques.
1.03 Professional Development. RBT answer - Behavior analysts who engage in assessment, therapy, teaching,
research, organizational consulting, or other professional activities maintain a reasonable level of awareness of
current scientific and professional information in their fields of activity, and undertake ongoing efforts to
maintain competence in the skills they use by reading the appropriate literature, attending conferences and
conventions, participating in workshops, and/or obtaining Behavior Analyst Certification Board certification.
1.04A Integrity. RBT answer - (a) Behavior analysts are truthful and honest. They arrange the environment to
promote truthfulness & honesty in others
1.04D Integrity. RBT answer - (d) The behavior analyst's behavior conforms to the legal and moral codes of the
social and professional
,1.04C Integrity. RBT answer - (c) The behavior analysts follow through on obligations ans contractual and
professional commitments with high quality of work and refrain from making professional commitments they
cannot keep
1.04B Integrity. RBT answer - (b) Behavior analysts do not implement contingencies that would cause others to
engage in fraudulent , unethical or illegal conduct
1.05A Professional and Scientific Relationships. RBT answer - (a) Behavior analysts provide behavioral
diagnostic, therapeutic, teaching, research, supervisory, consultative, or other behavior analytic services only in
the context of a defined, remunerated professional or scientific relationship or role.
1.05B Professional and Scientific Relationships. RBT answer - (b) When behavior analysts provide assessment,
evaluation, treatment, counseling, supervision, teaching, consultation, research, or other behavior analytic
services to an individual, a group, or an organization, they use language that is fully understandable to the
recipient of those services. They provide appropriate information prior to service delivery about the nature of
such services and appropriate information later about results and conclusions.
1.05C Professional and Scientific Relationships. RBT answer - (c) Where differences of age, gender, race,
ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, language, or socioeconomic status significantly
affect behavior analysts' work concerning particular individuals or groups, behavior analysts obtain the training,
experience, consultation, or supervision necessary to ensure the competence of their services, or they make
appropriate referrals.
1.05D Professional and Scientific Relationships. RBT answer - (d) In their work-related activities, behavior
analysts do not engage in discrimination against individuals or groups based on age, gender, race, ethnicity,
national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, socioeconomic status, or any basis proscribed by law.
1.05E Professional and Scientific Relationships. RBT answer - (e) Behavior analysts do not knowingly engage in
behavior that is harassing or demeaning to persons with whom they interact in their work based on factors
such as those persons' age, gender, race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability,
language, or socioeconomic status, in accordance with law.
1.05F Professional and Scientific Relationships. RBT answer - (f) Behavior analysts recognize that their personal
problems and conflicts may interfere with their effectiveness. Behavior analysts refrain from providing services
, when their personal circumstances may compromise delivering services to the best of their abilities.
1.06A Multiple Relationships and Conflicts of Interest. RBT answer - (a) Due to potential harmful effects of
multiple relationships, Behavior Analysts avoid multiple relationships
1.06B Multiple Relationships and Conflicts of Interest. RBT answer - (b) A behavior analyst must always be
sensitive to the potentially harmful effects of multiple relationships. If behavior analysts find that, due to
unforeseen factors, a multiple relationship has arisen, they seek to resolve it .
1.06C Multiple Relationships and Conflicts of Interest. RBT answer - (c) Behavior analyst recognize and inform
clients and supervisees about the potential harmful effects of multiple relationships.
1.07A Exploitative Relationships. RBT answer - (a) Behavior analysts do not exploit persons over whom they
have supervisory, evaluative, or other authority such as students, supervisees, employees, research
participants, and clients.
1.07B Exploitative Relationships. RBT answer - (b) Behavior analysts do not engage in sexual relationships with
clients, students, or supervisees in training over whom the behavior analyst has evaluative or direct authority,
because such relationships easily impair judgment or become exploitative.
1.07D Exploitative Relationships. RBT answer - (d) Behavior analysts do not barter for services, unless a written
agreement is in place for that barter that is (1) requested by client or supervisee; (2) customary to the area
where services are provided (3) fair & commensurate with the value od behavior-analytic services provided
2.0 The Behavior Analyst's Responsibility to Clients. answer - The behavior analyst has a responsibility to
operate in the best interest of clients.
1.07C Exploitative Relationships answer - (c) Behavior analysts refrain from any sexual relationships with
clients, students, or supervisees, for at least 2 years after the date the professional relationship has formally
ended.
2.01 Accepting Clients. answer - The behavior analyst accepts as clients only those individuals or entities
